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Show This Week by ARTHUR BRISBANE Mr. Morrow Start Fine Girls Many Bull, Donkey, Goat Race Torturing Witnesses Dwight W. Morrow, a national char-icter, char-icter, former partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., who has since done excellent ivork as ambassador to Mexico, has started his . campaign for the Senate n New Jersey. Mr. Morrow Is able. If he goes to the Senate, he will get for his State any- I :hing that is to be got. He understands j :he art of getting. Many will vote for lim because he wants to go to the Senate himself. Men as rich as Mr. Morrow have isually sent dummies to the Senate, :o do what they wanted done. To see tuch a man willing to go himself is a pleasant change. The ambassador says the federal rovernment Is too far away to attend to prohibition details In the States, ays the prohibition law should be repealed, and prohibition taken out of the constitution. Each State should be illowed to handle its own drink problem, prob-lem, Just aa It deals now with its jiorse thief or divorce problems. It will be an interesting campaign. The State is notoriously wet. Mr. Morrow Mor-row would probably be elected but for the fact that he Is In favor of the League of Nations. Difficult situntion or a man, honestly seeking an opportunity oppor-tunity to prove that one successful in business could be useful in public sffice. Twenty American girls went to play jolf in England. Eleven have already won British golf matches. Not a bad average. All parts of the United States produce girls with extraordinary men tal and physical powers. California, where you grow in sunshine summer und winter, produces the unequaled Helen Wills. This country has no monopoly on fine, adventurous young women. Amy Johnson, golden-haired 22-year-old British girl, flying from England to Australia alone, landed in India, two days ahead of all masculine records. Miss Johnson, safely past the danger-dus danger-dus Indian desert, is beating all world records. In a tiny Moth plane, smaller than Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. Her trip covers 11,000 miles, and she expects to fly back in the same plane. To save weight, the young lady, every time she lands and lakes a bath, borrows a change of under clothing.- That Is racing. Ralph Sanders started from Harling-I Harling-I ton, Texas, bound for New York, riding i a large black bull. He will race with I Benjamin Stack, who start thirty days i later, driving a goat, and a donkey, j Mr. Stack bets that b will get to New York first In spite of Sanders' 20 j days' start. That is unimportant in days of airplanes air-planes and automobiles, but everything strange interests us. Fashionable ladies in the Medici days liked hideous dwarfs; old kings had their "court fools"; the great astronomer, Tycho Brahe, made all at his table be silent when an idiot eating scraps at hit fet mumbled words supposed to have deep meaning. The "cruelty" society, of court", will see that the bull, goat and donkey are properly shod. The Jugo-Slavian King Alexander is accused of allowing police to torture political prisoners. One brought to court in a wheel chair, says be was beaten, tied with rores, whipped with canes, at intervals all night long. Other prisoners were treated in similar sim-ilar fashion. Civilization, backward in some places, In others makes progress. Not long ago, men accused were torture-l everywhere, to make them tell wha they knew. Torture is no longer legal When Queen Elizabeth decided to cut off the head of her lover, Essex, she was praised for her restraint in not having him put to the torture. Hi: abject submission, and fear of things he might have said, under torture, about the woman whom he indiscreetly described as an ugly old hunchback, might explain the unusual gentleness. Many remember when the Panama Canal was suggested, how the gigantic gigan-tic sum staggered imagination. We lent forty times that sum to Europe to help the processes of killing, kill-ing, and staggered nobody but little people that sold Liberty bonds far below be-low par. Now the War Department studies the plans for a bridge over the Hudson River at Fifty-seventh st. In New York. It would cost $1S0, 000,000, but that agitates no one. We have passed Into the billion dollar dol-lar era. Mere millions attract little attention. Dr. Sundstroem of the University of California has cured cancer In rats by keeping them In tanks under low atmospheric at-mospheric pressure. The "low oxygen tension" does not kill the rats, but cured 83 per cent at the rats subjected to it and afflicted with cancer. If diminished oxygen tension ten-sion kills cancer, perhaps inerensc-d tension would cure it. (C 1930, By Kinj tMturcs Syndittu, Uu.J |